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Our latest study into kids’ involvement in food practices!

🔹 High independence in eating & packing lunchboxes
🔹 Partnerships with adults for food prep & trading with school peers.
🔹 Less involved in planning &...

Ultra-processed foods are killing us and the planet, with... Public Health Nutrition from Foodies in the Field · Episode

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Latest Foodies in the Field podcast episode with @KimAnastasiou on all things #ultraprocessedfood and the impact they’re having on our health and environment. Tune in via the link or wherever you get your podcasts...

@sheridencluff and Zoe Murray from @hw_queensland presenting on their strategy for creating a social marketing campaign for Qld’ers to improve healthy food purchasing behaviours with consumers wanting values based and nutrition focused messaging tailored to different settings

@CZ_Christina from @IHT_Deakin and @GLOBE_Deakin presenting on advancing food pricing monitoring in Australia including co-designing a food pricing dashboard to inform policy actions #AustPH2023

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Leigh Bramwell highlighting the importance of critically analysing the ways in which food insecurity is talked about by health staff within government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health services and the need for staff reflexivity on power structures #AustPH2023

Sheida Navidi from the remote Public Health Dietetic team for Central Australian Health presenting on the importance of collaborative partnerships with remote store managers to create health-enabling food retail environments in the NT #AustPH2023

Caroline Deen and @meg_ferg_uson on the unaffordable nature of food in remote Indigenous communities and their work in developing a Community-led Framework for improved food security with pricing, supply, transport, and socioeconomic solutions #AustPH2023

Great to see the use of social practice theory in different health fields and how it may be applied in empirical studies to affect change, in this case parenting @caitlan_mclean

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Incredible presentation by Khalid Muse from @IHT_Deakin on how to authentically and actively engage African youth within food system policy research, calling for researchers and practitioners to actively amplify diverse voices informing future and current work #AustPH2023

@GraceArnot presenting important work on young peoples engagement in climate action outlining ways in which young people would like to engage in this space and low-, mid- and higher-level mechanisms to enable this. #AustPH23

@SabraLane on how solutions focused journalism may be able to tackle news avoidance and reframe community and global issues from unavoidable to inexcusable while providing hope and showcase progress in our world

#AustPH2023

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5. Advocate for/provide training for researchers to establish children’s active participation as the norm

In doing so, children’s unique food experiences may be amplified to inform how food and nutrition ecosystems may be better shaped towards their priorities and needs

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2. Upskilling children as researchers so that they themselves can guide research

3. Employing democratising methodologies such as participatory action research

4. Advocate for flexible funding models, resourcing structures and timelines according to research needs

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Food and #nutrition researchers and their institutions should aim to provide and advocate for voluntary opportunities for children to actively participate in food related research

For example,
1. Opening up research agendas to be broad and able to be re-shaped by children

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Key points below 👇

A lack of opportunities for children’s active #participation in all stages of food practice research (particularly in agenda setting and design) was identified

The extent and nature of children’s involvement in food p... The extent and nature of children’s involvement in food p...

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We describe the extent of #children’s involvement in #food related #qualitative #research, and how this research can be best conducted with children in our recently published #scopingreview https://bit.ly/464ROEl

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Insightful presentation by @asheriff97 on the problematic and insidious privatisation and commissioning nature of Primary Health Networks (PHNs) informed by neoliberalism instead of placing community needs at the centre #AustPH2023

Dr. Sarah Gerritsen on the importance of evaluating the implementation of health food policy and the impact this can have, including governments subsequently mandating policies #AustPH2023

@Klick22 on the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data governance in Australia and imperative of Indigenous data sovereignty as research and data collection continues into the future #AustPH2023

A pleasure and a privilege to hear from Pat Anderson on the journey to and importance of the Voice to Parliament at #AustPH2023. Highlighting that it’s up to all of us to engage, become informed and talk to those around us. #yes23

Some favourite conference posters from #DA2023 both for content and design. Great to see community and public health nutrition work showcased and leading innovative ways of working with communities
@Liza_R_Barbour @heartfoundation @andreabegley @SueKleve @deanaleahy

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Sharon Laurence showcasing complex work to implement a food procurement tool across 10 Vic gov departments hitting health, environmental and social targets. Facilitators are trans-disciplinary leadership, gov commitment, ongoing implementation and communication support #DA2023

Georgia Day on the exceptional history of public health nutritionists in the remote stores space. We need to continue investing in the PHN workforce through specified ongoing positions rather than piece meal project based funding that are eroding long term impact #DA2023

Jin Koo from @MonashNutrition showing that financial insecurity is the largest contributor to food insecurity from the Cardinia Food Security survey #DA2023. We need to advocate for responses that address core socioeconomic determinants of food security